BBC News Channel General Discussion

Clever how the News at One on BBC1 and the seperate World News and News Channel News Special can both go live to Lyse Ducett at the same time for her live report.. must take some planning especially with the fraught breaking news scenario unfolding.

I wonder how do they direct each feed to one another, through Red Bee?
Technically BBC1, BBCWN and BBCNC will have three different outputs... like BBCNC is BBCWN's content with sign language, etc.

Actually, without delving into rota/presenter talk, that 1pm TOTH must have been particularly challenging and worked very successfully.

The News Channel stayed with World to take the headline sequence with Lucy Hockings and Stephen Sackur who then introduced the first story before handing to Lyse Doucet in Dammatin.

Meanwhile on BBC One, Lyse Doucet introduced the French headlines before switching to Reeth Chakrabarti for the other headlines, then the local headlines opt, then the newsroom pan titles to Reeta, who introduced the first story before handing to Lyse in sync with the NC/World.

There's an awful lot going on there!

So are BBC News Channel and World doing shared coverage now? A couple of hours ago they were, with Simon McCoy presenting on World.

NC still with Lucy Hockings on World at 2pm. The World title sequence was overlaid on images from events in France and the programme was titled 'France MANHUNT'.

It did look a little amateurish.

Odd. The NC lost audio and graphics for a few minutes and was stuck on a live shot of the supermarket in Paris.

Now, at 2.27pm, we're back in Studio E and a TOTH sequence (albeit with the BOTH sting) with Julian Worricker and Karin Giannone.

Seemed as if they were being joined by another channel and introducing it as a BBC News Special but I don't think that's the case.

^BBC World went to an ad-break at around xx:25, and then seemed to crash into coverage mid-sentence at maybe half-past-ish. World isn't being hosted from Studio E though.

edit: I'm wrong - World coming from E.

Wouldn't need to involve Red Bee, all the separate outputs will be available within NBH to route to wherever. As for both channels linking to Lyse at the same time, all that takes is timing and communication. I'd guess the longest TOTH sequence would have been on BBC1, so the WN director can just fill until they're ready (although they'll have a good idea how long the BBC1 TOTH would run before they started which makes life much easier).

Something like this?
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/bbcnews_monbg.jpg

I was under the impression that the above was done with Frank sitting at the right hand side of the desk in C. Seen as the screens look like those along the right hand side of the set.

C or E - doesn't make much difference, E has the same screens in the same layout. Any further to the right and you'd have the "backstage" area of the studio. You could get a similar shot looking across the desk the other way to the (camera) left of the studio and the catwalk / larger screens.

I doubt that Stephen actually wanted a shot of the floor manager looking bored as a background, more likely he was asking if it would be possible to use a shot like this as an alternative to the newsroom.

I think it was the Six during the Obama inauguration where the headline sequence split three ways: an intro from the OB; then World and the NC each did their own bit; then BBC One got some regional headlines while NC continued doing some more - then all back to the OB at the end of the headline sequence.

I think what they did today isn't too uncommon (though no less impressive for it). You can often tell they're doing an OB to both networks when they finish with a "and now back to you in the studio in London" without a namecheck.